Scott-O -- as in Scott Walker and SunnO)))

This sounds great so far. Makes me think know of early Spandau Ballet for some reason.

would love to hear with your ears for just one day

Maybe not Spandau, but definitely some early-80s new romanticness in the way he layers the vocals so they seem 'shoutier'.

"Gold! (Gold!) The old man's back again!"

It sounds like a mash-up but yes I like it

This sounds better than I expected but worse than my imaginary collaboration between Attila on vocals and Scott on guitar + drill bit + crumhorn + ice block

Could not have given less of a shit when this was announced but that clip's soundin' great

http://www.optipess.com/2014/08/29/dying-wish/

remember this record?

huh, i thought this was gonna me an instrumentals album, not vocals. i like sunnO))) a lot but my interest still jumped up a couple of notches upon hearing that clip.

gonna BE

I don't think the clip is very representative of the whole album.
It kind of reminds me of the first time I heard PIL's Flowers of Romance album: I had the same "this is like opera reinvented" feeling. (it's not like PIL at all btw)

So, uh, this leaked apparently. Haven't downloaded it or anything, but just saw it pop up on a couple blogs today.

First track is a winner. ;-P

this is about as funny as lulu

I made it all the way through the first track and most of the second. Won't be delving any further. The vocals are just way too annoying.

I'm in

dig the starcastle guitar tones on the 'chorus' of "brando"

Vocals are annoying? You must be coming from SunnO fandom.

it is way way better than 'lulu'

it is way way better than 'lulu'

untrue, but i'm not going to convince anybody here

omg "lullaby" IS the ute lemper song!

Pretending Lulu is worth half a shit is a joke that was never funny. Stop it.

there's an all-day listening party for this as part of basilica soundscape. i will pop in and check it out this afternoon.

Pretending Lulu is worth half a shit is a joke that was never funny. Stop it.

lol

After just one listen, I'm loving this. Not as a longtime Walker fan (I'm not, only came to appreciate his greatness in the past few years) but as someone looking for something different. The tension and moodiness of the music contrasted with Scott' voice is just perfect. "Herod 2014" is absolutely epic, creepy and ripe for a grisly murder scene in a film. My early favorite.

Oh and hearing Scott sing the Lempur track... Makes me very happy!

And I find this album more easily... not 'accessible' but easier to enter into than "Bish Bosch". It's more in line with "Tilt".

"bull" is catchy as hell

won't miss the bees!
they're leaping like a river dancer's nuts!

I'm v excited to hear that he is fucking with the Salome legend!

Xp is the line after that the one containing the word "futz"? That made me happy. Like "cacafuego" in bish bosch. I grin from ear to ear when my most excellent words show up. "Bdelloid rotifers join the chitterling circuit" - chitterling! & the music functions in a similar way for me, like "phrasing" and "epizootics" are fucking joyous. It's something that ppl don't tend to acknowledge about his stuff, they'll go on about how obscure & ascetic it all is & maybe throw in a line about the humour but rarely talk about the amount of sheer pleasure to be had from the turns of phrase, the references, the crazy sounds &c

Played this new one twice through, I like it a lot. Brando is gorgeous.

Also in this new one does he sing "could not give toss" at some stage or am I mishearing?

On first listen this is terrific, we're listening in the car and it sounds likes Sabbath but with jokes

fgti as always I will look forward to your thoughts on the arrangements.

this is incredible so far

A question for those already in possession of this: what's the running time of the last track?

i have "lullaby" at 6:34. not sure how 'official' my copy is though

Me too, on both counts.

Release has been pushed back a month. See you in November guys

Boo

My "lullaby" cuts out abruptly, I'm assuming it won't on the real album. I can wait till I've bought it, I think I prefer "lullaby (by-by-by)" anyway

into this even more than the ulver split, and between this and 'bish bosch' i am in awe of wisco's governor

If he's not singing "butts are leaking" on Bull, I'll be mighty disappointed.

he probably is.

speaking of leaking, i can't help feel a bit frustrated that this is available to stream so much earlier than the official release.

How is the bitrate of the leak

How is the buttrate of the leak

loool

It's 320 but as others have noted the last track is a bad rip and cuts off 3 minutes early.

Which is another reason why I always make my own rips. But it's nice to have something to tied me over.

I accurip a donkey on the streets of Galway

I'm still leaning toward not listening to a note of this til it comes out. I especially don't want to experience scottus interruptus on Lullaby...

heard this in Hudson, NY at the Basilica Sound Scape- they had a listening installation set up in a church with a giant, ridiculous audiophile pair of amps and huge speakers and you could go in and listen to the album at top volume in this spooky / austere context.

I thought it sounded fucking great. Both halves of the equation multiply each other: Scott sounds even richer and more lyrical, Sunn0)))'s riffs sound even more evil and intense, and there are all the cool textural experiments of Scott's recent records, but now with more bottom / solidity and threat.